The outside setting of this scene is important when creating a sense of fear as the characters are exposed and the darkness means that they cannot see anyone else's presence. This creates a sense of fear within both the audience and the charters as they are vulnerable to attacks without any warning. The darkness of the street creates an eerie feeling as there was not any street lighting during this time period so that following the attack, the setting creates confusion as it means that the characters do not know who performed the attack in the dark and therefore they do not understand what has happened.
Throughout this scene, Shakespeare uses short lines with exclamation marks and question marks, 'thou diest!'
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Shakespeare uses Iago's asides throughout the play to give the audience insight into Iago's thoughts and feelings. An example of this is shown in this scene when I ago says 'This is the night That either makes me, or foredoes me quite'. This line shows Iago's fear about his plan falling apart and the effect that this will; have on him. Therefore the audience begins to feel fearful too as they aren't sure on what will happen next.They also become fearful about what the rest of his plan will cause to happen as they know that Othello is plotting to kill Desdemona and they would ebcome fearful that this will happen next.
In this scene again Shakespeare uses Iago's character to present the theme of appearance vs. reality. This is shown Iago claims to have discovered the fight after it took place, ' whose noise it this that cries on murder', when really he had planned the entire event so that he would not be caught out.
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